Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-21

| had been employed there in counting
! house, in watch the HiCkSes were inter
ested, and was sent west to take charge
of the land interests Of the Hicks Land
! Company and of the American Land Com
! paDy. I was paid a salary OF 900 a
year from the Hicks company and received
commission from the American COM
panY. My journey west was far differ
ent from the travel of to-day. A great
part of it was made by stage, and L took
the steamer from Sandusky City to
Toledo. At Toledo / attempted to 90 to
Defiance by wagon, and ! found that
walking was easier than riding, and l
footed Il. At Defiance | tried TO get a
horse, but the man to whom | was re-
ferred was not willing to let me have one
because he was afraid would not SIND
him back. l got one, however, from an
other man, on the condition that | would
let his boy ride behind me, and it was in
this way that rode to my settlement in
Northwestern Oaio."
''When did you first become acquaiEt
ed with Judge Waiter"
~ met him soon after he came to
Ohio, and was well acquainted with
him when he was q young lawyer at
Maumee City, little town just out Of
Toledo. l shall never forget trip we
took together in 1871. Waite was at
Defiance, on his WY to attend court at
q neighboring county seat. It was Fri
day and the court commenced on Mon
dsy. I had just been married and nay
wife was st Hicksville. l met Waite at
Defiance and l proposed 10 him thst
he come over TO HickSville and
spend Sunday with ME aud call upon my
bride. The route between the two points
was twenty-eight miles. We started on
horseback, for that vas the only way we
had Of travelling then, and we had pro
ceeded only 4 part of the way when q
terrible rain storm, cold and dreary,
came upon US. We were soon dTenChed
to the skin, and we decided to stop at a
farmers house and remain over night.
1t was at the cabin OF man named Dill
man, little affair of one room and an
attic. Mrs. Dillman hung up blanket
before the fireplace, and behind this the
future chief justice and myself stripped
and dried our clothes. After sup
per we went into the attic TO sleep, !
and the next morning upon pulling on my |
| discovered hole through /.
which my big toe thrust itself uncom- |
fortably. l pulled the stocking off, turned .
it wrong side out, and put it on the same
foot again. Waite was watching with an |
amused look on his face, and my agon-
izing perplexity of how the undarned hole
was still filed by the COMPOUNDED toe,
struck him to such an extent that he ex-
'Wby don't you put it on the
other foot? Then the little toe will be in
The hole. That is what you are after l
tried it and found it success, and with
this my began my admiration for Judge
Waite, which has steadily increased to
he present day.
We found everything plessal at Hicks
lille, and on Sunday remember that
Waite and l went to the Methodist meet
ne in log cabin. Chief Justice Waite
;sn repeat the prayer wich he heard there,
o this day, and he always laughs when
Ve talk shout the service. The preacher
vas man named John D. Martin, who
7ore shockingly poor pair of pantaioons.
during the sermon he said that preaching
n s new country was terrible hard on
lothes, and with this he turned his back
D the audience as an evidence of the fact.
he illustration was SO forcible that one
the brethren proposed taking up col